Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Book Overview

Protestant missionaries in Latin America. Colonial "civilizers" in the Pacific. Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa. Since the 1890s, thousands of American teachers--mostly young, white, middle-class, and inexperienced--have fanned out across the globe. Innocents Abroad tells the story of what they intended to teach and what lessons they learned.

Drawing on extensive archives of the teachers' letters and diaries, as well as more recent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674032063
• ISBN13: 9780674032064
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"